Robert Bloch

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Born:
April 5, 1917
Died:
Sept. 23, 1994

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Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of German-Jewish Americans. During the 1930s, he was an avid reader of Weird Tales magazine and H. P. Lovecraft in particular. He wrote to Lovecraft, who responded with advice on writing, and Bloch sold his first published short story, "The Feast in the Abbey" to Weird Tales when he was just seventeen. He continued to write for Weird Tales and went on to become one of its most popular authors, while also contributing to other magazines. In 1946, his first published novel, The Scarf, was released. He received the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1959 for “That Hell-Bound Train” (1958). Also in 1959, he published one of his best-known novels, Psycho, which was adapted for the screen in 1960 by Joseph Stefano, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the screenplay for the movie The Night Walker (1964), and he also wrote three scripts for the television show Star Trek. Over the course of his career, he wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, mostly in the crime fiction, science fiction and, horror fiction genres.

Books by Robert Bloch

Stephen King, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Gene Wolfe, Philip K. Dick, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Wharton, Joanna Russ, William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Edith Nesbit, Charles Dickens, Harlan Ellison, Henry James, Clive Barker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Matheson, Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Shea, Ambrose Bierce, Tanith Lee, Ramsey Campbell, Fritz Leiber, David G. Hartwell, Robert Bloch, D. H. Lawrence, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, 시어도어 스터전, Robert Hichens, Dennis Etchison, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert W. Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, H. P. Lovecraft, Disch, Thomas M.: The Dark descent (1987, T. Doherty Associates, [Distributed by St. Martin's Press]) No rating

The Dark descent

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Robert Bloch: Mysteries of the Worm (Paperback, 1993, Chaosium, Inc.)

Mysteries of the Worm

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Robert Bloch: Psycho II (Paperback, 2003, I Books)

Psycho II

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Robert Bloch: Psycho (Paperback, 1989, Tor Books)

Psycho

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Stephen King, Joe Haldeman, Ray Bradbury, Gene Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Gorey, Clifford D. Simak, Richard Matheson, T. E. D. Klein, Lisa Tuttle, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, Russell Kirk, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, 시어도어 스터전, Dennis Etchison, Davis Grubb, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Edward Bryant, Kirby McCauley, Richard Christian Matheson, Grahan Wilson: Dark Forces (Hardcover, 1980, Viking Press)

Dark Forces

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Robert Bloch: Lori (Paperback, 1990, Tor Books)

Lori

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Robert Bloch: American Gothic (Paperback, 2004, I Books)

American Gothic

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Robert Bloch: The night of the ripper (1986, Tom Doherty Associates)

The night of the ripper

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Robert Bloch: El horror que nos acecha (Paperback, Spanish language, 1983, Acervo)

El horror que nos acecha

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Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Dan Simmons, Roger Zelazny, Ray Bradbury, Jack Dann, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Guy de Maupassant, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Dion Fortune, Richard Matheson, Algernon Blackwood, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ambrose Bierce, Lafcadio Hearn, Tanith Lee, Gardner Dozois, Lisa Tuttle, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, August Derleth, Gahan Wilson, Brian Stableford, Sabine Baring-Gould, Fritz Leiber, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Lord Byron, Robert Bloch, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Cholmondeley, M. R. James, Manly Wade Wellman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Otto Penzler, Fredric Brown, Carl Jacobi, Franz Hartmann, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Kilworth, Garry, Everil Worrell, Jan Neruda, Basil Copper, Francis Marion Crawford, Richard Laymon, Charles Beaumont, David J. Schow, Vernon Lee, Eliza Lynn Linton, Joseph Payne Brennan, Edward Frederic Benson, Peter Tremayne, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Gilbert, Anne Crawford, Alecsandri, Vasile, F. G. Loring, Hume Nisbet, Eric Stenbock, Luigi Capuana, Frederick Cowles, O. Scott-Moncrieff, Ed Gordon, Victor Roman, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, Watson, H. B. Marriott, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Walter Starkie, Vincent O'Sullivan, Mary A. Turzillo, Sydney Horler, Hugh B. Cave, Dana Seitler: The Vampire Archive (Paperback, 2009, Quercus Publishing Plc)

The Vampire Archive

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Richard Matheson, F. Paul Wilson, Robert Bloch, Ashley Wood, David Schow, Ted McKeever, Kristian Donaldson: Completely Doomed (Paperback, 2007, IDW Publishing)

Completely Doomed

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